Toledo -- Miss Doris Cornelius, Toledo, is the only Tama county girl to enter the service of the marines. She is a graduate of the first school of the marines from Hunter college, New York, and now has the rank of private first class in charge of a group in the motion picture school at the marine aviation detachment, Camp Mahan, San Diego, Cal. She has a brother, Bob, who is a marine sergeant in the south Pacific, and another brother, Willis, in the medical department as Washington, D.C.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA - January 3, 1944
Toledo Girl Badly Hurst in Car Mishap
Toledo, Ia. -- Word has been received here of an automobile accident to Miss Doris Cornelius, Toledo, who is a member of the women's marine corps stationed at Camp Pendelton, Cal.
The accident occurred between San Diego and Oceanside. Miss Cornelius joined the service in March 1943 and is a corporal.
The report stated she had a crushed side and chest, and she had been placed in an oxygen tent, and given blood plasma.
Her sister, Mrs. Irvin Joens, who lives in Tama, went at once by plane.
Two brothers are in the service, Sgt. Willis, in the infantry at Camp Gordon, Ga., and Robert in the marines, at Camp Pedro, Calif.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA - February 11, 1945
Toledo -- Funeral services were here Friday for Cpl. Doris Cornelius, 22, formerly of Toledo, who died Feb. 7 at the army hospital at Camp Callan, Cal., of a crushed left lung and a concussion suffered in an automobile accident; born at Toledo, the daughter of Fred and Ida Belden Cornelius, was graduated from Toledo high school in 1941; enlisted in the marines in March, 1943, and received her training at Hunter college, New York City; was stationed at the marines supply depot in San Francisco, where she was employed as a stenographer; was later trained as a movie projector operator at Camp Elliott, San Diego, and had been stationed at Camp Pendelton, Oceanside, Cal., for the last years; leaves sisters, Mrs Irvin Joens, Tama; two brothers, Pvt. G. Robert Cornelius of the marines, stationed at San Pedro, Cal., and Sgt. Willis Cornelius, at a port of embarkation; funeral services will in charge of the Rev. F. C. Scott, pastor of the Toledo United Brethren church. Casketbearers will be Ted Joens, Harry Kahler and Don Martin, Traer; Homer Wagoner, Lee Austin and Charlie Long, Toledo. Music will be by H.P. Giger and O.L Harrison accompanied by Mrs. H.P. Giger at the piano. Flowers will be in charge of Mrs. Millard Lundt and the Misses Ruth Rines and Gertrude Surface. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery in Toledo.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA - February 18, 1945 (photo included)
